Jimmy Winokur's
All-Time Favorite Movies
thru 2009, BUT WITH MANY RECENT EXCEPTIONS
(Films are listed in approximate order of preference and personal
impact.)
FILMS:
Very Honorable Mention
Other Favorites
actors
♪
= memorable music
Music Pages:
FAVORITE MUSICIANS
My COMPOSITIONS
Favorite Quotations:
Song Lyrics
All-Time Top Twenty-Two Films
1. The Deer Hunter ♪ (1978), Michael Cimino, Robert DeNiro, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, John Savage, Meryl Streep. (Cavatina: Stanley Myers)
2. Midnight Cowboy ♪ (1969), John Schlesinger, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Barnard Hughes, Brenda Vaccaro.
3. The Chosen (1978), Jeremy Paul Kagan, Robby Benson, Rod Steiger, Maximillian Schell (Music: ♪Elmer Bernstein).
4. Moonstruck (1987), Norman Jewison, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olivia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello.
5.
CRASH
(2004),
Paul Haggis Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Terrence Howard, Michael Pena, Chris
'Ludacris' Bridges, Larenz Tate, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan
Fraser Sandra Bullock, Ryan Phillipe, Thandie Newton, Tony Danza, Loretta Devine.
(Score: ♪
Mark Isham)
6. East of Eden (1955), Elia Kazan, James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives. (score: Leonard Rosenman)
"They didn't like the cast. They didn't like the way I was shooting it.
I was always on the verge of getting fired."
Francis Ford Coppola, on the shooting of The Godfather
7.
The Godfather
(Parts I and II) (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, Al
Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Robert
Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Al Lettleri, Lee
Strassberg, Michael Gazzo. (Score:
♪
NinoRota)
8. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, Edward Platt, Dennis Hopper, Nick Adams. (score: Leonard Rosenman)
9. Age of Innocence (1993), Martin Scorcese, Juliette Binoche, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joanne Woodward (narrator). (score: Elmer Bernstein)
10. Silence of the Lambs (1991), Jonathon Demme, Jodi Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Tracy Walter, Charles Napier, Roger Corman. (film score: Howard Shore)
11. Shine (1996), Scott Hicks, Geoffrey Rush, Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lynn Redgrave, John Gielgud, David Helfgott. (score: ♪ David Hirschfelder; Sergei Rachmaninoff)
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975), Milos Forman, Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Simpson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Brad Dourif.
13. The Conversation (1974), Frances Ford Coppolla, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford.
14.
Cinema Paradiso (1989), Giusseppe Tornatore, Phillipe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore
Cascio, Marco Leonardi (Score:
♪
Ennio Morricone).
15. Dr. Zhivago (1965), David Lean, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay (Music: ♪ Maurice Jarre).
16. Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Sidney Lumet, Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Carole Kane.
17. Schindler's List (1993), Stephen Speilberg, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle, Embeth Davidtz (Score: ♪ John Williams).
18. THE TWO POPES (2019), Fernando Meirelles, Anthony McCarten, Jonathon Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Luis Gnecco.
19. All That Jazz ♪ (1979), Bob Fosse, Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, Jessica Lange (as Death), Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Erzsebet Foldi, Sandahl Bergman, John Lithgow (Sore: ♪ Bob Fosse)
20. SABRINA (1954), Billy Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, John Williams.
Sabrina: remake (1995) is also wonderful: Stanley Pollack, Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear .
21. THE PROFESSIONAL (also released as LEON ) (1994) Luc Besson, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Michael Badalucco. (score: ♪ Eric Serra)
22.
BODY HEAT
(1981), Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke,
Richard Crenna, Ted Danson.
23. MAGNOLIA (1999), Paul Thomas Anderson, Earl Partridge: Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Baker Hall (Score: ♪ Jon Brion
Outside the
Sheridan, Telluride Film Festival, 2001
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Waves (2019), Trey Edward Shultz, Taylor Russell, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Alexa Demie.
Gone With The Wind (1939), Victor Fleming, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia De Havilland, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel.
Innocence (2000), Paul Cox, Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terry Norris, Robert Menzies, Marta Dusseldorp
Great Expectations (1997), Alfonso Cuarón, Ethan Hawke, Gwynneth Paltrow, Robert DeNiro, Anne Bancroft. (update of the Dickens novel)
Network (1976), Sidney Lumet, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty.
Ordinary People (1980), Robert Redford, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh, Dinah Manoff, James B. Sikking (featuring ♪Pachelbel, Canon in D; adapted by Marvin Hamlisch)
The Way (2011) , Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, Yorik van Wageningen, James Nesbitt.
Liberty Heights (1999), Barry Levinson, Brody, Ben Foster, Rebekah Johnson, Carolyn Murphy, Joe Mantegna, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), Louis Malle, Gaspard Manesse, Phillipe Morier-Genoud, Francine Racette.
Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Wells, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Everett Sloan, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Ruth Warrick.
Does the
moving picture give us something original,
something which endows it with a singular quality?
Or is film only a mixture of other art forms, making use of their values?
Finally I realised that film does have one singular quality
that no other art form can supply.
The moving picture is capable of showing us a living human face in close-up: this ability is the source of its special energy. Film is capable of showing the birth of an emotion or a thought and its changing -- mirrored in the expression: how love turns into jealousy, how a newly born thought is mirrored in the eyes. Only the moving picture can show life's beautiful changes, the constant movement of the human expression in the most intimate moment, in the moment of its birth.
István
Szabó, Budapest,2004
Sunshine (2000) (re-released as Taste of Sunshine), István Szabó
The Last King of Scotland (~2005), Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Karel Reisz, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan.
Phantom Thread (2017), Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day Lewis, Lesley Manfield, Vicki Krieps.
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Woody Allen, Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow, Jerry Ohrbach, Sam Waterston.
Porgy and Bess (1959), Otto Preminger, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis, Jr. Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, Clarence Muse (Music: ♪ George & Ira Gershwin/arr. Andre Previn, Ken Darby).
Plenty (1985) Fred Schepisi, Meryl Streep, Charles Dance, Tracy Ullman, John Gielgud, Sting, Sam Neill.
Of Mice and Men (1992), Gary Sinise, John Malkovich, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn (Score: ♪Mark Isham).
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Sydney Pollack, Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Ronald Neame, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Celia Johnson, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson.
Les Amants de Teruel (The Lovers of Teruel) (ballet fantasy - 1962) Raymond Rouleau, Ludmilla Tcherina, Rene-Louis Lafforgne, Milko Sparemble (Score: ♪ Rene-Louis Lafforgne,, Mikis Theodorakis, Henry Sauguet)
Splendor In The Grass (1961), Elia Kazan, Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie.
South Pacific (1958), Joshua Logan, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston. (Score; ♪ Rogers & Hammerstein)
My Fair Lady (1964), George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway (Score: ♪Lerner & Lowe).
The Truman Show (1998), Peter Weir, Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney.
Adaptation (2002) Spike Jonze, Nicholas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton.
American Beauty (1999), Sam Mendes,: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari,: Chris Cooper
Mr. Roberts (1955), John Ford, Mervyn Leroy, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Jack Lemmon, William Powell, Ward Bond.
Her (2013), Spike Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlette Johansenn, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde.
La La Land (2016)Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Aimee Conn (Score: ♪ Justin Huirwitz)
A Price Above Rubies (1998), Boaz Yakin, Renée Zellweger, Christopher Eccleston, Julianna Marguilies, Allen Payne.
Berkeley in the Sixties (Documentary, 1990), Mark Kitchell, tracing the roots of Berkeley's '60s unrest and, more deeply, the relationship between the varied strands of the '60s and '70s U.S. Counter-Culture.
Mystic River ♪(2003), Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Laurence Bishbourne, Marcia Gay Harden, Laura Linney, Emmy Rossum. (Score: ♪Clint Eastwood)
Avalon (1990) Barry Levinson, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Lou Jacobis
Some Like It Hot (1959), Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Joe E. Brown, George Raft, Nehemiah Persoff, Pat O'Brien, Mike Mazurki.
Lenny
(1974), Bob Fosse, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner.
1900 (1977), Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert DeNiro, Gerard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda.
A Room With A View (1986), James Ivory, Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Ekiot, Daniel Day-Lewis, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Rosemary Leach.
Forrest Gump (1994) Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Michael Humphreys, Hanna Hall, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Wallace, Dick Cavett, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Richard Nixon.
Man of Flowers (1984), Paul Cox, Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood, Werner Herzog.
Jean de Florette (1987), Claude Berri, Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil.
Manon of the Spring (1987), Claude Berri, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Elisabeth Depardieu.
Doubt (2008), MerylStreep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams.
American Sniper, (2015), Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis, Sienna Miller.
Primal Fear (1996) Gregory Hoblit, Edward Norton, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand, Joh Mahoney, Alfre Woodard.
Emerald Forest (1995), John Boorman, Powers Booth, Charlie Boorman
Crimes of the Heart (1986), Bruce Beresford, Jessica Lange, Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, Hurd Hatfield.
The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffe, Sam Waterston, Dr. Haing S. Ngor.
Witness
for the Prosecution
(1957), Billy Wilder, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Deitrich,
Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Henry Daniell, Una O'Connor.
Thelma & Louise (1991), Ridley Scott, Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald.
Tess (1979), Roman Polanski, Nastassia Kinski, Peter Firth, John Bett.
Dead Poets Society (1989), Peter Weir, Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Kurtwood Smith, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hanses, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, James Waterston.
Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002), Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles, Matheus Nachtergaele, Seu Jorge, Alezandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora.
Blue (1993) Krystof Kieslowski, Juliette Binoche, (Score: ♪ Zbigniew Preisner).
A Song for
Martin
♪
(2001),
Bille August, Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl. (Score:
♪
Stefan Nilsson)
War Games (1983), John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman,
Darkest Hour (2017) Joe Wright, Gary Oldman, Kiristin Scott-Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn.
The Dancer Upstairs (2003), John Malkovich, Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Bottoe, Laura Morante, Elvira Minguez, Alexandra Lencastre, Oliver Cottom, Luis Miguel Cintra, Javier Manrique, Abel Folk
Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam, Jonathon Pryce, Robert DiNiro, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins.
21 Grams (2003), Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsborg, Melissa Leo, Clea DuVail.
Washington Square (1997), Agnieszka Holland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey. (Music: ♪Jan A. P. Kaczmarek)
Wings of the Dove (1997) Iain Softley, Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Alison Roache, Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Gambon.
thirteen (2003), Catherine Hardwicke, Nikki Reed, Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Deborah Unger, Brady Corbet
Dirty Pretty Things (2003), Stephen Frears. Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okenedo
Lone Star ♪ (1996), John Sayles, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Morton, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Matthew McConaughey, Miriam Colon, Frances McDormand, Stephen Mendillo, Stephen J. Lang (Score: ♪ Manson Daring)
Queen of Hearts (1989), Jon Amiel, Joseph Long, Anita Zagaria.
All the
King's Men
(1949), Robert Rossen, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland,
Mercedes McCambridge.
El Norte (1983), Gregory Nava (w/Anna Thomas), Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando.
Capote (2005), Bennett Miller, Dan Futterman (Screenwriter) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Chris Cooper, Bruce Greenwood.
Mahler (1974), Ken Russell, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant (Music: ♪ Gustav Mahler).
La Femme Nikita ♪ (1991), Luc Besson, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo (Score: ♪ Eric Serra).
Heat (1995), Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Jon Voight, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Diana Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd.
Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Sidney J. Furie, Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor .(Music: ♪Billie Holiday, Diana Ross)
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen... (2003), Claude Lelouch, Jeremy Irons, Patricia Klaas.(Score: ♪Michel Legrand)
In the Name of the Father (1993), Jim Sheridan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlewaite.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), John Frankenheimer, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish.
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Susan Siedelman, Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Robert Joy, Mark Blum, Laurie Metcalf.
Platoon (1986), Oliver Stone, Tom Berenger, William Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C McGinley, Richard Edson.
Fargo (1996) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Storemare, Marve Presnell, Kristin Rudrud, John Carroll Lynch.
The Color Purple (1985) (re-released as Moon Song) Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Adolph Caesar, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Rae Dawn Chong, Akusua Busia. (Score: ♪Quincy Jones)
The Graduate (1967), Mike Nichols, Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Kathryn Ross (Music: ♪Simon & Garfunkel).
Rain Man (1988), Barry Levinson, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Golino.
The Caine
Mutiny
(1954)
Edward Dmytryk, Herman Wouk, Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer,
Robert Francis, Fred MacMurray.
Two for The Road (1967), Stanley Donen, Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset. (Score: ♪Henry Mancini)
Medium Cool (1969), Haskell Wexler, Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz.
Dances With Wolves (1990), Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Green, Rodney A. Grant.
Cold Fever (1996) fridrik thor fridrikson, Mastoshe nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Gisli Halldorsson, Laura Hughes, Seijun Suzuki.
Roots: The Opening Episodes (Made for TV, 1977), Marvin J. Chomsky, LeVar Burton, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Lou Gossett, Jr., Leslie Uggams, Lorne Green, Sandy Duncan, Chuck Connors, Burl Ives, Lloyd Bridges, Edward Asner,
Entres Nous (1983), Diane Kurys, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Hupert, Guy Marchand.
Things Change (1988), David Mamet, Don Ameche, Joe Mantegna, Robert Prosky.
Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Judith Evelyn.
Seven Days in May (1964), John Frankenheimer, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam.
Caught (1997), Robert M. Young, Edward James Olmos, Maria Conchita Alonso, Arie Vereen, Steven Schub, Bitty Schram.
Norma Rae (1979), Martin Ritt, Sally Field, Ron Liebman, Pat Hingle, Beau Bridges.
Children of a Lesser God (1986), Randa Haines, William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco.
Klute (1971), Alan J. Pakula, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider.
Brainstorm (1983), Douglas Trumbull, Natalie Wood, Christopher Walken, Louise Fletcher.
Damage (1992), Louis Malle, Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson.
Witness (1985), Peter Weir, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover.
Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Fred Schepisi, Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Mary Beth Hurt, Bruce Davison, Richard Masur.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Frank Darabont, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, James Whitmore, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston.
Amores Perros (2000), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo, Alvaro Guerrerro, Vanessa Bauche, Joerge Salinas, Marco Perez
Cocoon (1985), Ron Howard, Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, Hume Cronyn, Brian Denehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Barret Oliver, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Virdon, Tahnee Welch.
Raising Arizona (1987) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Trey Wilson, Frances McDormand, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Randall “Tex” Cobb, M. Emmett Walsh.
Married to the Mob (1988), Jonathon Demme, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl.
North By Northwest (1959), Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau.
The Illusionist, (2006), Neil Burger, Edward Norton, Jennifer Beil, Paul Giamatti.
Working Girl (1988), Mike Nichols, Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack.
Terms of Endearment (1983), James Brooks, Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito.
Mountains of the Moon (1990), Bob Rafelson, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glenn, Roger Rees, Fiona Shaw (Music: ♪ Michael Small).
Enemies: A Love Story (1989), Paul Mazursky, Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Margaret Sophia Stein, Alan King, Paul Mazursky.
The Nasty Girl (1990), Michael Verhoeven, Lena Stolze.
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990), Uri Edel, Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake, Jerry Ohrbach (Score: ♪ Mark Knopfler).
Eve's Bayou (1997), Kasi Lemmons, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbie Morgan, Jake Smollett, Diahann Carroll, Branford Marsalis, Vondie Curtiss Hall (Score: ♪ Terence Blanchard)
My Family, Mi Familia (1995), Gregory Nava (w/Anna Thomas), Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jenny Gago, Jimmy Smits, Elpidia Carrilla, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Jacob Vargas, Jennifer Lopez, Constance Marie, Enrique Castillo.
As Good As It Gets (1997), James L. Brooks, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Saving Private Ryan (1998), Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti.
* * * * *
Other All-Time Favorite Films
The Emerald Forest (1985), John Boorman, Powers Booth, Meg Foster, Charlie Boorman.
Big (1988), Penny Marshall, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow.
The French Connection (1971), William Friedkin, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony LoBianco, Marcel Bozzuffi.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), Hugh Hudson, Christopher Lambert, Ralph Richardson, Andie MacDowell.
Broadcast
News
(1987), James L. Brooks, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Robert
Prosky, Joan Cusack.
Mrs. Soffell, Gillian Armstrong, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson (Score: ♪Mark Isham)
The Last Seduction (1994) John Dahl, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Nunn.
Flirting
With Disaster
(1996),
David O. Russell, Ben Stiller Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore.
Barry Lyndon (1975), Stanley Kubrick, Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton.
Betrayal (1983), David Jones, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Irons, Patricia Hodge.
Widows' Peak (1994), John Irvin, Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent, Anne Kent, John Kavanagh.
Million Dollar Baby (2004), Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel
Map of the Human Heart (1993), Vincent Ward, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Jason Scott Lee, John Cusack, Jeanne Moreau.
Do The Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Savage, John Turturro (Music: Bill Lee w/Branford Marsalis).
Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Wilder.
Cape Fear (1992), Martin Scorcese, Nick Nolte, Robert DiNiro, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Robert Mitchum, Martin Balsam.
Oh! What A Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Vanessa Redgrave, Susanna York, Maggie Smith, Jack Hawkins, Kenneth More, Corin Redgrave, Jane Seymour.
The Advocate (1993), Leslie Megahey, Colin Firth, Amina Annabi, Donald Pleasance, Nicol Williamson, Michael Gough.
A Star Is Born (1954), George Cukor, Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford, Jack Carson, Tommy Noonan.
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Tony Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Brunnage, Peter Madden, Alec McCowen, James Fox, Julia Foster.
West Side Story (1961), Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn. (Music: ♪ Leonard Bernstein)
Nixon (1995), Oliver Stone, Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, E.G.Marshall, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, James Woods, David Hyde Pierce.
Sophie's Choice (1982), Alan J. Pakula, Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol.
The Thornbirds (Made for TV, 1983), Daryl Duke, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, John Friedrich.
The Official Story (1985), Luis Puenzo, Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio, Analia Castro.
To Catch A Thief (1955), Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, John Williams, Jessie Royce Landis.
Elmer Gantry (1960), Richard Brooks, Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones.
On Golden Pond (1981), Mark Rydell, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon.
The Freshman (1990), Andrew Bergman, Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Maximillian Schell.
Ponette (1997), Jacques Doillon, Victoire Thivisol, Matiaz Bureau, Delphine Schiltz, Marie Trintignant, Xavier Beauvois'.
Cider House Rules (1999) Lasse Hallstrom, Tobey Maguire, Michael Caine, Charlize Theron.
Almost Famous, Cameron Crow, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee, Patrick Fugit, Michael Angarano, Zooey Deschanel, Fairuza Balk, JimmyFallon, Anna Paquin, Terry Chen.
The Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004), Alexandra Cassavetes, F. X. Feeney, Vera Anderson, Jerry Harvey, James Woods, Theresa Russell, Jim Jarmusch, Alexander Payne, Jacqueline Bisset, Charles H. Joffe, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Cimino, Vilmos Zsigmond, Alan Rudolph
A Face In The Crowd (1957), Elia Kazan, Bud Schulberg, w., Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick.
Short Circuit (1986), John Badham, Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Brian McNamara, Tim Blaney.
Les Miserables (1995) Claude LeLouch, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Annie Girardot.
Captain Phillips (2013) Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks,, Barkhad Abdi
The Horesman on the Roof (1996), Jean-Paul Rappenau, Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre Arditi, Francois Cluzet, Jean Yanne, Claudio Amendola, Carlo Cecchi, Christine Cohendy.
Separate Tables (1958), Delbert Mann, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Rod Taylor, Felix Aylmer.
The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams, Jack Kruschen.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Jean Paul Rappeneau, Gerard Depardeiu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber.
The Usual Suspects (1995), Bryan Singer, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollack, Pete Postlewaite, Suzy Amis, Benicio Del Toro
Lili
Traffic (2000), Steven Soderbergh, Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzman, Benicio Del Toro, Benjamin Bratt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Amy Irving, Albert Finney, James Brolin.
Falling Angels (2003), Scott Smith, Katharine Isabelle, Miraqnda Riuchardson, Callum Keith Rennie.Kristin Adams, Monte Gagne
Ship of Fools (1965) Stanley Kramer, Vivien Leigh, Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, George Segal, Michael Dunn, Elizabith Ashley, Lillia Skala, Charles Korvin.
Topkapi, (1964) Jules Dassin, Peter Ustinov, Melina Mercouri, Maximillian Schell.
Last Summer (1969), Frank Perry, Richard Thomas, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite, Conrad Baine.
Live for Life (1967), Claude Lelouch, Yves Montand, Candice Bergen, Annie Grardot (Music: ♪Francis Lai).
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones.
Two Women (1960), Vittorio Di Sica, Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone.
The Guns of Navarone (1961), J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, James Darren.
Two Days in the Valley (1996), Paul Mazursky, James Spader, Danny Aiello, Marsha Mason.
Courage Under Fire (1996), Ed Zwick, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon, Seth Gilliam, Bronson Pinchot, Scott Glenn, Regina Taylor.
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997), Bille August, , Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Loggia, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Emma Croft.
Missouri Breaks (1976), Arthur Penn, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson.
The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), Peter Weir, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr, Noel Ferrier.
The African Queen (1951), John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, Kathrine Hepburn, Peter Bull, Robert Morley, Theodore Bikel.
Dolores Claiborne (1995), Taylor Hackford, Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judy Parfitt, Christopher Plummer, David Straithairn, Fric Bogosian, John C. Reilly, Ellen Muth.
The Blue Lagoon (1949) Frank Launder, Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, James Hayter.
Beckett (1964), Peter Glenville, Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown.
Woodstock (1970), Michael Wadleigh (Documentary).
WarGames (1983), John Badham, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin.
Local Hero (1983) Bill Forsythe, Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton MacKay, Dennis Lawson, Norman Chancer Peter Capaldi, Jenny Seagrove (Score: ♪Mark Knopfler).
A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Jack Conway, Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Woods, Basil Rathbone, Isabel Jewell.
The Hospital (1971), Arthur Hiller, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Nancy Marchand, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Roberts Blossom, Robert Walden (Paddy Chayefsky, w.)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Paul Mazursky, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Dyan Cannon, Eliot Gould.
Closer (2004), Mike Nichols, Patrick Marber, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen.
Lady Jane (1985), Trevor Nunn, Helena Bonham Carter, Gary Elwes, John Wood, Michael Hodern, Jill Bennett, Jane Lapotaire, Sara Kestleman, Patrick Stewart.
It Happens Every Spring (1949) Lloyd Bacon, Ray Milland, Paul Douglas, Ted De Corsia, Jessie Royce Landis, Debra Paget, Jean Peters, Ed Begley, Ray Collins, Alan Hale, Jr.
Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Michael Anderson, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Newton.
The Last Waltz (1978), Martin Scorcese, ♪The Band (Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko), Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, The Staples, Muddy Waters, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Ronnie Hawkins, Ringo Starr, Ron Wood.
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) Alfonso Cuarón, Luisa Cortés, Julio Zapata, Tenoch Iturbide
Place Vendome (1998), Nicole Garcia, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jacques Dutronc, Bernard Fresson, François Berléand, Philippe Clévenot
Lord Jim (1965), Richard Brooks, Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach.
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956), George Sydney, Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, Victoria Shaw, James Whitmore.
Apollo 13 (1995), Ron Howard, Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Kathleen Quinlan.
Lost in La Mancha (Documentary, 2001), Terry Gilliam
Time Bandits (1981), Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Craig Warnock, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, David Rappaport, Kenny Baker, Jack Purvis, Mike Edmonds, Malcolm Dixon, Tiny Ross.
Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renee Zelwegger, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson.
Collateral (2004) Michael Mann, Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Tom Ruffalo, Jada Pinkett Smith, Peter Berg
Time Regained Le Temps Retrouvé, (Marcel Proust) (1999), Raul Ruiz, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Pérez, John Malkovich, Pascal Greggory, Marcello Mazzarella, Marie-France Pisier, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Edith Scob, Elsa Zylberstein, Christian Vadim, Dominique Labourier, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Melvil Poupaud
The Champ (1931), King Vidor, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Hamilton, Roscoe Ates.
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Frank Perry, Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgrass, Frank Langella.
I Want to Live ♪ (1958), Robert Wise, Susan Hayward, Virginia Vincent, John Marley, Gavin McLeod, Theodore Bikel, (Score: ♪Johnny Mandel).
The Social Network (2010), David Fincher, Jesse Eisneberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter.
Paris Blues ♪ (1961), Martin Ritt, Sidney Poitier, Paul Newman, Diahann Carroll, Joanne Woodward, Serge Reggiani. (Music: Duke Ellington).
Cherry 2000 (1988), Steve De Jarnett, Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Ben Johnson, Tim Thomerson, Brion James, Harry Carey, Jr., Michael Gwynne.
The Night of the Iguana (1964), John Huston, Richard Burton, Deborah Carr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon, Grayson Hall, Skip Ward, Cyril Delevanti,
Rancho Deluxe (1975), Frank Perry, Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley.
Comes A Horseman (1978), Alan J. Pakula, Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards, Richard Farnsworth.
The End of Violence (1997), Wim Wenders, Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Andie MacDowell,
100 Girls (2000),
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Meryl Streep
Philip Seymour hoffman
James Dean
Audrey Hepburn
Shirley MacLaine
Robert De Niro
edward norton
Henry Fonda
James Stewart
Michelle Pfeiffer
Al Pacino
MORGAN FREEMAN
William Hurt
Jennifer Jason-Leigh
Gerard Depardieu
Sean Penn
Robert Duvall
Vanessa Redgrave
Cate Blanchett
Robin Williams
Holly Hunter
Juliette Binoche
Sally Field
Denzel Washington
Don Cheadle
John Cazale
Julie Harris
Natalie Portman
Gary Sinise
Cary Grant
Shirley MacLaine
Chris Cooper
Joe Mantegna
Anthony Hopkins
Renee' Zellweger
Daniel Auteuil
John Cusack
Mary Tyler Moore
Jeremy Irons
Danny Glover
Susan Sarandon
Johnny Depp
Ray Milland
Peter MacNicol
Richard Pryor
Ray Walston
Meg Ryan
Gwynneth Paltrow
Julia Ormond
Lena Olin
Emmanuelle Béart
Emily Watson
Composers:
Mark Knopfler
Ennio Morricone
Elmer Bernstein
Mark Isham
Clint Eastwood
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Zbigniew Preisner
John Williams
Henry Mancini
Maurice Jarre
Claude Lelouch
Rachel Portman
Nino Rota